“life which is so fantastic cannot be altogether tragic”

I have three questions, please pick two to answer in your response:
Re-reading the first half of Doty’s book, I’m struck by its similarity to Weschler’s piece on Tina Barney’s photographs in the way Doty converges his experience of the painting with his memories and our conversation about objectivity/subjectivity. How Doty’s stories work to color the [...]

ways of seeing

here are (most of) the visual images that appear in John Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing”. Click on them to enlarge them.

The Key Of Dreams–Magritte

Regents of the Old Men’s Alms House–Hals (1580-1666)

Regentesses of the Old Men’s Alms House–Hals (1580-1666)

Still Life with Wicker Chair–Picasso

Church of St Francis at Assisi

Inside the Basilica
Virgin of the Rocks–Leonardo Da [...]

One Million A.D.

transom interview comments

Here’s the post to comment on. The Transom interview is looong–too long for you to read all of it. It’s linked off the Weschler page, but I’ll link it again here. If you find scrolling down the page irritating, you can click the “Download this document in PDF” link and read it that way, or [...]

Byzantine Tree

This picture can be found at http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~jh468/photos/greece%252012.04/strange%2520tree%2520at%2520monastry.JPG&imgrefurl=http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~jh468/Greece_Trip_12_04.htm&h=1920&w=2560&sz=922&hl=en&start=3&sig2=sKFXT_3VkZg_Zm23IqqE2A&um=1&tbnid=YSKwyErRWL3ChM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&ei=uXeLR42vAZjgigHO68iDDA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstrange%2Bimages%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX
The picture was taken by a Byzantine Monastery and leaves many questions to be answered.

Convergences: Showings us Why we Feel

Weschler’s approach of using convergences when looking at art at first seemed totally arbitrary, but then it started to make sense. Each of the photographs were trying to convey certain emotions or ideas through the positioning of people, objects, and light—and when you compare that to art with similar positionings, you begin to understand why [...]

Response to Echoes at Ground Zero

      In this essay, Lawrence Weschler explores art in a new and invigorating way.  His use of convergences as a form of art opens up new doors and ways of thinking to the viewer.  The convergences fundamentally allowed you to compare and contrast two seemingly irrelevant things.  Each photograph can be a basis for comparison [...]

Response to “Echoes at Ground Zero”

Somebody had to break the ice. I don’t really know if this is what you were looking for…            
 Weschler’s Convergences explores convergences in the truest sense. In this case, two pieces of art come together to form an idea that exists outside of the original pieces. It’s an interesting way [...]

echoes at ground zero: respond

In this essay, Lawrence Weschler and Joel Meyerowitz discuss convergences of Meyerowitz’s photographs of the wreckage at Ground Zero in New York City with a diverse assortment of other art pieces.
Why might this be a useful way of looking at art?
Was there one convergence in this essay that surprised you or made you think [...]

Picture

Boris.

Warhol, Andy. Unidentified Male Portrait, circa 1952; Men: Andy Warhol; Ink on ivory bond paper; 11 x 8.5 in. 

Eternal Believer

This photograph is called ‘Eternal Believer.’ You can find it on Deviant Art (deviantart.com) under photography > conceptual. The user it is listed under is NadavDov. Click the picture below to see a full size image.

She’s drunk and lost

Taken from deviant art, user “glenox66.”
http://glenox66.deviantart.com/art/shes-drunk-and-lost-74100666

Study for Over Vitebsk

This is an oil painting by Russian painter Marc Chagall. The original copy was once stolen from a museum and the same story was the basis for the novel The World to Come by Dara Horn. The novel is a big part of why I chose this piece.

Evolution

The image is really big, so click on it to see the whole thing. This multimedia painting is by Cheez Kan, an artist who I went to high school with.  The piece is the result of an animal to human transformation project. To see more of her work, go to www.cheezpro.com